Category Archives: Areas of Interest

Can TSK Inspire Creativity?

“Internally, however, rhythm comes ‘before’ the ‘logos’, whirling the points of measured time and space into being, ‘establishing’ the ‘logos’ and its ‘order.  ‘Points’ express the rhythm through which they arise and which sustains them.  First they emerge from the … Continue reading

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Matisse and TSK

Creation is no longer a unique event that takes place at the beginning of time, or else through the inspiration of a mysterious force. Instead, as the momentum of ‘time’ it is freely accessible in each interaction. KTS 78 TSK … Continue reading

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The Edge of Time

Hameed Ali (A H Almaas) speaking about Time at the Science and Non-Duality Conference http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/54780188    

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A Sense of Caring

To guard against  self-deception, it is important to balance the sense of caring and the feeling of immediacy it can bring with insight into the functioning of conventional temporality. One way to cultivate such insight is to review and reflect … Continue reading

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Gravity & Lightness

To cultivate playfulness of mind is to move from this self-imposed gravity toward light, from the grave to the light-hearted. There is nothing mysterious in this movement; on the conventional level, it comes about simply through relaxing the rigid structures … Continue reading

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Intimacy as the basis for Compassion [TSK Ex 25]

‘You are me in another time.’ Barry Long TSK does not directly teach the practice of love or compassion toward others. However, once the narrowness of the positions we hold drops away, we find that we interact more easily with others, … Continue reading

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Intention, appreciation, inquiry and mindfulness.

Does a connection exist between mindfulness and TSK’s exploration of the underlying dynamic of time? Mindfulness ‘instills’ an awareness of the present.  If our awareness is just of the objects, thoughts and phenomena that are of interest to the self, … Continue reading

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Whispered Intimacy

Much has been said about mindfulness. Buddhist practitioners have in mindfulness a valuable tool, but not alone. In the wonderful book of Ken McLeod “Wake Up to Your Life – Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention” there is a very … Continue reading

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Forgetting the Name

“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.” – Robert Irwin “Only he who simply abandons himself to the object of his perception will experience it aesthetically.” — Erwin Panofsky These phases from the CCI website inspired me … Continue reading

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Full Participation

It seems that “the known world is experienced by the self, which owns its experience. For this basic structure to work, the self must adopt a specific position that puts it outside experience… As an ‘outsider’, the self occupies the … Continue reading

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